This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
G. F. Osborne
(George Frederick Osborne)
(Osborne, George Frederick)
Service no 48694
Rifleman, Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), formerly 35391, Royal Engineers (Postal Section). Posted to London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in London; lived in Clapham
Died of wounds on 10 July 1918, aged 23
CWGC: "Son of Lydia Osborne, of 110 Dorset Road, Clapham Road, London."
Remembered at Pernois British Cemetery, Halloy-les-Pernois, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

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Information from the censuses
George Frederick Osborne, 15 and working as a telegraph messenger for the General Post Office (GPO), is found on the 1911 census living at 7 Bolney Street, South Lambeth, where his family had five rooms. His father, George Lewis Osborne, 36, was a plasterer's labourer; he was born in Lambeth, as was his wife, Lydia Osborne, 35. The couple had five children, all born in Lambeth: George Frederick, 15; Alfred James, 12, at school and working as a milk boy; Thomas John Osborne, 11, William Frederick, 3; Florence Maud, 6 months. Joseph Alfred Wyld, 35, a carman in the newspaper trade, boarded with the family. In 1901 George and his family lived at 41 Vine Cottages, Bond Street.